SAN FRANCISCO / Cal football player arrested on felony weapons charge

A University of California football player has been arrested on a felony weapons charge stemming from a fight in San Francisco early Friday morning.

David Gray, 21, a sophomore wide receiver for the Bears from Richmond, was arrested in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco at about 1 a.m. Friday. He was booked into the county jail on charges of tampering with identification marks of a firearm, a felony.

Gray was released from the county jail Friday afternoon on a $30,000 bond.

Officers initially responded to a report of a fight involving weapons on the 400 block of Bay Street, outside a nightclub. They detained Gray and several others and found a weapon on Gray and one in a vehicle involved in the incident, Oropeza said.

Two other men were arrested in the incident, also on weapons charges.

Demario Harris, 21, of Richmond was arrested for theft of a firearm and unlawful use of a firearm. Timothy Warren, 18, of Stockton also was arrested for theft of a firearm.

"There was an incident early this morning," Bob Rose, a spokesman for the Cal athletic department, said Friday night. "We're still gathering the facts. We don't feel it's appropriate to comment until we have more information." Rose said such instances were evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

Gray's career at Cal has been hampered by injuries. In his first play as a Bear, Gray scored a touchdown on a 71-yard catch against Baylor University in the 2002 season opener. But he was hurt during the game and did not play the rest of the year while recovering from a shoulder injury that required surgery.

The 6-foot 3-inch, 220-pound receiver made six receptions for 46 yards during the 2003 season but scored no touchdowns. He was hobbled by a stress fracture in his foot this season and played in just one game -- against Stanford -- making one catch for 24 yards.

Gray entered the Cal program with high expectations, ranked among the top receivers in the nation.

He played high school football for McClymonds High School in Oakland, where he earned all-city honors on the 2001 team, which went 11-1. Coming back from a shoulder injury, Gray caught a game-winning touchdown pass to win the school's first Silver Bowl title since 1987, beating perennial power Skyline High School.